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The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about. -- Ravi Zacharias
The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate. -- Ravi Zacharias
We are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bouncing about. -- Ravi Zacharias
Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation. -- Ravi Zacharias
One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before. -- Ravi Zacharias
By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure. -- Ravi Zacharias
You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day. -- Ravi Zacharias
Any nation that neglects teaching the sacredness of life and the family does so at its own peril. Any nation that sanctions the removal of God's boundaries will destroy its own. -- Ravi Zacharias
The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder. -- Ravi Zacharias
Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity. -- Ravi Zacharias
Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one's own individuality is power in the hands of a fool. -- Ravi Zacharias
The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude. -- Ravi Zacharias
So do not fear the struggle; rather, embrace it. Embrace it in the knowledge that the Grand Weaver will take all of your struggles, questions, disappointments, and fears and use them to build your faith and increasingly make you into a man or woman who looks like Jesus Christ. -- Ravi Zacharias
How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth. -- Ravi Zacharias
Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience. -- Ravi Zacharias
When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do. -- Ravi Zacharias
I do not believe for a moment that the Scriptures are against wealth. But the warning to those who make wealth their pursuit is a stern reality. Wealth must be processed through a philosophy of life that is greater than wealth itself. If not, it shapes the mind for bitter disappointments. -- Ravi Zacharias
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it. -- Ravi Zacharias
The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable ... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction. -- Ravi Zacharias
I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's the way and the path of the visual. -- Ravi Zacharias
A worshiping community should be the fountain from which life flows and the ocean into which your efforts are merged. That is where identity is defined, refined, and consolidated and where continuity remains. -- Ravi Zacharias
And so the abnormal is now normal in entertainment, because the normal is treated as subnormal in the world of the media. That, I can assure you, is consciously done. -- Ravi Zacharias
Love is the greatest apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. The need is vast, but it is also imperative that we be willing to follow the example of Jesus and meet the need. -- Ravi Zacharias
The world was made for the body. The body was made for the soul. And the soul was made for God. -- Ravi Zacharias
It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions. -- Ravi Zacharias
What the person means by saying, "You must be open to everything" is really, "You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too." Indian -- Ravi Zacharias
God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes -- Ravi Zacharias
Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God. -- Ravi Zacharias
The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live! -- Ravi Zacharias
But it was not to be. -- Ravi Zacharias
Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, 'Holy' keeps the respect and reverence while 'Father' brings Him close & intimate. -- Ravi Zacharias
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. -- Ravi Zacharias
I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e., living without God, if consistently carried through, will
have made life plainly unlivable within the limits of reason or even common sense -- Ravi Zacharias
When you come to religion, you come to a place.
When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person. -- Ravi Zacharias
Become a man or woman of prayer...Let your heart and mind be kept close to the principal calling of your life, which is to hunger and thirst after God and His righteousness...Let the thoughts and intents of your heart be shaped and guided by time spent in His presence. -- Ravi Zacharias
In his play "Long Day's Journey into Night, " Eugene O'Neill has one of his characters utter a powerful statement toward the end of her life: "None of us can help the things life has done to us. They are done before you realize it and once they are done, they make you do other things, until at -- Ravi Zacharias
Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls. -- Ravi Zacharias
I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question.
Tell me," I said.
You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones. -- Ravi Zacharias
But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared. -- Ravi Zacharias
Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth. -- Ravi Zacharias
The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes. -- Ravi Zacharias
The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life. -- Ravi Zacharias
Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. There's no linear movement or point of accountability toward God. -- Ravi Zacharias
The worldview of the Christian faith is simple enough. God has put enough into this world to make faith in him a most reasonable thing. But he has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone. The -- Ravi Zacharias
God has put enough into the world to make faith in Him a most reasonable thing. But He has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason or observation alone. -- Ravi Zacharias
God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone. -- Ravi Zacharias
God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross -- Ravi Zacharias
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the heart of man. That is why atheism is so bankrupt as a view of life, for it miserably fails to deal with the human condition as it really is. -- Ravi Zacharias
When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin. -- Ravi Zacharias
When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold. -- Ravi Zacharias
I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time. -- Ravi Zacharias
Every religion at its core is exclusive. -- Ravi Zacharias
God the Grand Weaver seeks those with tender hearts so that he can put his imprint on them. Your hurts and your disappointments are part of that design, to shape your heart and the way you feel about reality. The hurts you live through will always shape you. There is no other way. -- Ravi Zacharias
Yet there is nothing so vulgar left in our present cultural experience for which some professor cannot be found somewhere to justify it. Reason has died. -- Ravi Zacharias
DID JESUS REALLY PERFORM MIRACLES? -- Ravi Zacharias
The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness gives us a fresh start. -- Ravi Zacharias
For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life. -- Ravi Zacharias
Philosopher William Lane Craig reminds us that an infinite regress of causes is like trying to jump out of a bottomless pit. How do you start if you never reach the bottom? On the other hand, one might well ask, if every birth is a rebirth, what kamma was paid for in his first birth? -- Ravi Zacharias
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart. -- Ravi Zacharias
Here is life's essential purpose - to worship God in spirit and in truth (see John 4:24). All other purposes are meant to be secondary. When they become primary, they destroy the individual. -- Ravi Zacharias
Truth by definition excludes. -- Ravi Zacharias
Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave. -- Ravi Zacharias
But the greatest dream of all is to know God and to know what he has intended for your life. -- Ravi Zacharias
Just as strength is a man's charm, so charm is a woman's strength. -- Ravi Zacharias
I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full. -- Ravi Zacharias
There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you. -- Ravi Zacharias
A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling. -- Ravi Zacharias
It is a self-evident truth that a person who truly prays and seeks God's wisdom in life recognizes the sovereignty of God and is committed to seeking God's wisdom in life's important choices. -- Ravi Zacharias
Marriage brings face to face two people committed to God whose face is distinctively revealed in each as they see each other in the light of God, shining on each countenance. God brought them close to each other because each was the other's answer from God, to rescue them from being alone. -- Ravi Zacharias
To be able to accept the wonder and the marvel of one's own personality, however flawed or 'accidental,' and place it in and trust it to the hands of the One who made it, is one of the greatest achievements in life. -- Ravi Zacharias
His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death. -- Ravi Zacharias
Starting at life's cryptogram, we either see His name unmistakably resplendent or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture. -- Ravi Zacharias
Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God. -- Ravi Zacharias
ARE THE RECORDS OF JESUS' LIFE RELIABLE? -- Ravi Zacharias
Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith. -- Ravi Zacharias
The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious? -- Ravi Zacharias
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him. -- Ravi Zacharias
A solemn reminder not to make our goal in life one of sheer material pursuit. The allurement is great, and the disappointments are proportionate. -- Ravi Zacharias
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us. -- Ravi Zacharias
In the real-life struggles between right and wrong, justice and injustice, life and death, we all realize that truth does matter. Jesus Christ repeatedly talked about the supreme value of truth. While -- Ravi Zacharias
In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore. -- Ravi Zacharias
The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself. -- Ravi Zacharias
Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer. -- Ravi Zacharias
Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life. -- Ravi Zacharias
You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life. -- Ravi Zacharias
Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal. -- Ravi Zacharias
The love of God shows us that God alone bridges the distance between him and us, enabling us to see this world through Calvary. -- Ravi Zacharias
...they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have "liftoff" power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power. -- Ravi Zacharias
Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that. -- Ravi Zacharias
To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge -- Ravi Zacharias
God doesn't respond because someone opens up some new insight for Him. No. In persistent, fervent prayer, God prepares the soil of one's heart to make room for the seed of His answer, from which will flower an alignment with His will. -- Ravi Zacharias
Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive. -- Ravi Zacharias
Unsuspecting people make a fatal mistake when they give their allegiance to a system of thought by focusing on its benefits while they ignore its systemic contradictions. -- Ravi Zacharias
In Christian engagement, the goal is to win the person
who is of the other worldview - not to destroy the person. -- Ravi Zacharias
We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded. -- Ravi Zacharias
Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised. -- Ravi Zacharias
...monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around. -- Ravi Zacharias
Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of charm, but out of a commitment to make someone's life the joy you want it to be. -- Ravi Zacharias
In some countries you love your neighbors, and in others you eat them. -- Ravi Zacharias
Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine. -- Ravi Zacharias
I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers. -- Ravi Zacharias
My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different. -- Ravi Zacharias
To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion. -- Ravi Zacharias
The person who demands a sign and at the same time has already determined that anything that cannot be explained scientifically is meaningless is not merely stacking the deck; he is losing at his own game. -- Ravi Zacharias
A society that hates laws that guard the soul despises not so much the laws as much as it despises the very thought of a soul. Those who belong to such a society consider the flesh the totality of their being. -- Ravi Zacharias
Naturalism by its purpose engineers the displacement of the miracle and puts in its place explanations that defy reason. Those who smirk at His walking on water have forgotten the miracle He has already performed in the very composition of water. Think -- Ravi Zacharias
In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility. -- Ravi Zacharias
In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step. -- Ravi Zacharias
Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each man and woman, boy and girl, so that we begin to think God's thoughts and act in accordance with his character. -- Ravi Zacharias
If God is the author of life, there must be a script. -- Ravi Zacharias
Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process. -- Ravi Zacharias
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule. -- Ravi Zacharias
All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose. -- Ravi Zacharias
DID JESUS EVER CLAIM TO BE GOD? -- Ravi Zacharias
The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all. -- Ravi Zacharias
God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace. -- Ravi Zacharias
As much as that retrospective look troubles us, however, it makes for a fascinating confirmation that without God, the thing never would have happened. -- Ravi Zacharias
Sometimes in the shadows of one's self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one's shaping lie the answers. -- Ravi Zacharias
Because I live, you shall live also. -- Ravi Zacharias
For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship. -- Ravi Zacharias
This is why Jesus challenged the notion that more evidence would have generated more faith. George Macdonald said years ago that to give truth to him who does not love the truth is to only give more reasons for misinterpretation. -- Ravi Zacharias
The resulting inability or even desire to reason and think through an idea logically is demonstrated by one-liners such as "I'm not into 'isms. -- Ravi Zacharias
Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive. Worldviews -- Ravi Zacharias
A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing. -- Ravi Zacharias
We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity. -- Ravi Zacharias
Living under the tremendous illusion that personal freedoms and freedom of speech are devoid of moral assumptions and responsibilities, we have bankrupted ourselves, so that honor, truth, and morality have been sacrificed at the altar of autonomy and self-worship. -- Ravi Zacharias
Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy. -- Ravi Zacharias
Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt. -- Ravi Zacharias
Giving yourself the privilege of destroying other positions while parking your own position in an unidentifiable location is a form of linguistic terrorism. -- Ravi Zacharias
DID JESUS RISE FROM THE DEAD? -- Ravi Zacharias
What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love. -- Ravi Zacharias
You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction. -- Ravi Zacharias
Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery."2 -- Ravi Zacharias
I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out. -- Ravi Zacharias
My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice. -- Ravi Zacharias
You see, there is an intellectual side to life but also a side to life where deep needs are experienced. We falsely think that one side deals with truth and the other with fantasy. Both need the truth, and the elimination of one by the other is not the world in which God intends for us to live. -- Ravi Zacharias
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' -- Ravi Zacharias
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. -- Ravi Zacharias
Denying the existence of God leads us to preposterous conclusions so that, in the end, the amoral world of the skeptic who simply cannot explain good is worse than the world of the theist who has an explanation for evil. -- Ravi Zacharias
It is possible to hold a treasure in your hand but be ignorant of it and go for the wrapping instead. This proximity to truth and distance from its worth is repeated innumerable times in our lives. -- Ravi Zacharias
The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We just happen to be here. That one is willing to live and die in that belief is a very high price to pay for conjecture. -- Ravi Zacharias
Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive. -- Ravi Zacharias
In our human imagination, we so often perceive our Heroes to be something larger than life. We exalt them in ways that do them a disservice ... we convince ourselves that they are or were something essentially different than the rest of us. -- Ravi Zacharias
Isn't it ironic that when Islam is in a position of power, Islamic beliefs are forced on everyone, and that when atheism has the upper hand, atheistic beliefs are enforced on everyone? Only in Christianity is the privilege given both to believe and to disbelieve without any enforcement. -- Ravi Zacharias
If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night? -- Ravi Zacharias
Sometimes religion can be the greatest roadblock to true spirituality. The -- Ravi Zacharias
It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin. -- Ravi Zacharias
You can easily substitute the intellect for true devotion. Devotion comes from the heart, and from the will. The intellect, you can cerebrally answer things, but you make a big mistake when that happens. -- Ravi Zacharias
Of all the enterprises in which the human heart engages, none lends itself more to abuse and manipulation than the activities of religion. For here, sacrifice and greed can meet in the most trusting and exploiting context. -- Ravi Zacharias
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. -- Ravi Zacharias
Taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause? -- Ravi Zacharias
It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow. -- Ravi Zacharias
The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty. -- Ravi Zacharias
In the gospel message, the beginning of change occurs in the heart of each individual. This heart change makes a difference in the home, then in the community, and ultimately in the nation- and in turn it shapes the future of a cultural ethos. -- Ravi Zacharias
sexuality is sacred, and using it for amusement brings diminishing returns. -- Ravi Zacharias
You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts. -- Ravi Zacharias
The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous. -- Ravi Zacharias
I believe God intervenes in the lives of every one of us. He speaks to us in different ways and at different times so that we may know he is the author of our very personality. -- Ravi Zacharias
The simplistic solutions of Deepak Chopra cannot stand against the lofty and deep teachings of Jesus Christ. Only in His answers will we find the ultimate hope for the human heart. -- Ravi Zacharias
The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it. -- Ravi Zacharias
Sacrilege is often defined as taking something that belongs to God and using it profanely. But there is a bigger sacrilege we commit all the time. That is to take something and give it to God when it means absolutely nothing to us. -- Ravi Zacharias
Christ in you," said the apostle Paul, is "the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27). -- Ravi Zacharias
In a culture rife with power and position, where the home bespoke volumes, shame would not be the path of choice for anyone. Had the virgin birth not been true, to assert that truth would be the path of cultural ostracism, if not suicide for all of them. -- Ravi Zacharias
We talk so much about one's rights ... so little about what is actually right. -- Ravi Zacharias
Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing. -- Ravi Zacharias
Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse. -- Ravi Zacharias
Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father. -- Ravi Zacharias
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it. -- Ravi Zacharias
Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation. -- Ravi Zacharias
It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good. -- Ravi Zacharias
The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life. -- Ravi Zacharias
When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want. -- Ravi Zacharias
Many pray for the right partner but cease to pray for the right union--that they be one as Jesus and the Father are one and so experience the full measure of His joy in the relationship. -- Ravi Zacharias
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. -- Ravi Zacharias
An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth. -- Ravi Zacharias
Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit. -- Ravi Zacharias
Let your devotional life be the beacon that guides you through the tough terrain you will face. -- Ravi Zacharias
Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph. -- Ravi Zacharias
Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer. -- Ravi Zacharias
If musicians and artists have no absolutes, they end up caring more about the way the thing is told than about the thing itself, and they slide deeper and deeper till it's their means rather than the ends that matter. -- Ravi Zacharias
Faith is a thing of the mind. If you do not believe that God is in control and has formed you for a purpose, then you will flounder on the high seas of purposelessness, drowning in the currents and drifting further into nothingness. -- Ravi Zacharias
For communication to be effective, especially in matters as life-defining as the gospel message, truth and relevance are the two indispensable wings on which it is borne. -- Ravi Zacharias
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference. -- Ravi Zacharias
One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven ... works have a place
but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it. -- Ravi Zacharias
Life without God is ultimately life without any point of reference for meaning other than what one gives it at the time. -- Ravi Zacharias
Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do ... ' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character. -- Ravi Zacharias
The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness. -- Ravi Zacharias
Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning. -- Ravi Zacharias
Success is more difficult to handle than failure. -- Ravi Zacharias
Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is. -- Ravi Zacharias
One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate. -- Ravi Zacharias
Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation. -- Ravi Zacharias
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them. -- Ravi Zacharias
Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures. -- Ravi Zacharias
We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling. -- Ravi Zacharias
I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around. -- Ravi Zacharias
His first step is to make temptation appear as a natural desire. It is something unequivocally physical and human. -- Ravi Zacharias
Perfection, then, is not a change in the essential character but the completion of a course. This is precisely what Jesus must have meant when he admonished his disciples and us to 'be perfect,' as our Heavenly Father is perfect. -- Ravi Zacharias
Spirituality does not give relevance to life; rather, truth gives relevance to spirituality. -- Ravi Zacharias
The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place. -- Ravi Zacharias
Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message? -- Ravi Zacharias
Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining. -- Ravi Zacharias
Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are. -- Ravi Zacharias
The reality is that if religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth, -- Ravi Zacharias
The components of gratitude and truth, love and hope bring the realization of wonder. The disciplines of study, of reading and reflecting, of dialoguing in depth and praying with belief sustain the wonder. -- Ravi Zacharias
Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it. -- Ravi Zacharias
We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness. -- Ravi Zacharias
The apostle Paul says in Romans 13:14, "Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature." In other words, do not put yourself in a place where you can fall. -- Ravi Zacharias
When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence. -- Ravi Zacharias
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right. -- Ravi Zacharias
Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior. -- Ravi Zacharias
Isn't it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out? -- Ravi Zacharias
Religion has a checkered history, and some of it is reprehensible. An -- Ravi Zacharias
As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here. -- Ravi Zacharias
What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate ... -- Ravi Zacharias
We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around. -- Ravi Zacharias
Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's" (v. 15). This verse is the middle verse of the Old Testament and rightly so, for it gives the assurance that when we trust in God He will fight for us. The battle is not ours; it is His. -- Ravi Zacharias
Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle. -- Ravi Zacharias
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny. -- Ravi Zacharias
Often we are not aware of how close we are to that which we need but we think we do not have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment. -- Ravi Zacharias
Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ. -- Ravi Zacharias
Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed, -- Ravi Zacharias
The Scriptures categorically state that the problem with such people is not the absence of evidence; it is, rather, the suppression of it. The message of Jesus Christ shifts the charge of insufficiency from the volume of evidence to the intent of one's will. -- Ravi Zacharias
That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference. -- Ravi Zacharias
All religions do not point to God -- Ravi Zacharias
Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right -- Ravi Zacharias
The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to
ironically-fait h! -- Ravi Zacharias
Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around. -- Ravi Zacharias
What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind. -- Ravi Zacharias
In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it. -- Ravi Zacharias
Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. -- Ravi Zacharias
The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media. -- Ravi Zacharias
How have we come to a place in society where millions of babies can be slaughtered and disposed of in the name of progress? Shocking but real. -- Ravi Zacharias
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? -- Ravi Zacharias
The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness. -- Ravi Zacharias
When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize. -- Ravi Zacharias
God is not a place or an eperience or a feeling. -- Ravi Zacharias
Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God. -- Ravi Zacharias
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down. -- Ravi Zacharias
We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live. -- Ravi Zacharias
The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs. -- Ravi Zacharias
You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework. -- Ravi Zacharias
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy. -- Ravi Zacharias
WONDER IS ONE OF THOSE "POSSESSIONS" THAT NEEDS DISCIPLINED GUARDING AND THOUGHTFUL GUIDING. -- Ravi Zacharias
Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide. -- Ravi Zacharias
Ask without pettiness Being before doing Convictions without compromise Discipline without dreariness Ask -- Ravi Zacharias
Truth is the thread that separates true spirituality from false spirituality. -- Ravi Zacharias
Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face. -- Ravi Zacharias
The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected. -- Ravi Zacharias
Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness. -- Ravi Zacharias
You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The -- Ravi Zacharias
What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong. -- Ravi Zacharias
Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart. -- Ravi Zacharias
Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing. -- Ravi Zacharias
Legalism always breeds compliance over purpose. -- Ravi Zacharias
No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers. -- Ravi Zacharias
G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder. -- Ravi Zacharias
God clearly called me into the preaching and teaching ministry, principally in hostile arenas. An odd call for a shy individual, I would think! But God does it his way. -- Ravi Zacharias
Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right -- Ravi Zacharias
But you know, General, Jesus never came to establish a government upon the people by force. He did not even talk about political systems. He came to rule in the hearts of people, and not by the establishment of political power. He asks to live in you, not to control your state. -- Ravi Zacharias
To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer. -- Ravi Zacharias
Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone. -- Ravi Zacharias
The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle. -- Ravi Zacharias
Wonder is retained by wise pondering. -- Ravi Zacharias
Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can. -- Ravi Zacharias
God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason. -- Ravi Zacharias
Of all the religions in the world, there is none with the wealth of music that the Christian faith offers. -- Ravi Zacharias
What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him. -- Ravi Zacharias
You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live. -- Ravi Zacharias
Worship is exclusionary. You cannot compromise on worship. Worship -- Ravi Zacharias
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God. -- Ravi Zacharias
The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something. -- Ravi Zacharias
History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves. -- Ravi Zacharias
A friend asked the author,If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know? -- Ravi Zacharias
What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights. -- Ravi Zacharias